Serving our Neighbors
Eggs for Casa Maria
Members of St. Michael's prepare hundreds of hard-boiled eggs for delivery to the people of Casa Maria, a Catholic Worker community in South Tucson that serves hundreds of hungry and homeless people on a daily basis.
International Holiday Bazaar
Bi-annually in December we offer free space for over 25 socially-committed, non-violent nonprofit groups to sell their wares. Parish artists also participate. It’s holiday shopping with a conscience, and features food, music & fun.
Epiphany Gifts for Primavera
During Epiphany we collect warm clothing, blankets, towels, new socks and underwear, and toiletries for folk at Primavera Shelter. Contact the Social Action Committee or the church office.
Food Pantry
St. Michael’s gives many hundreds of food bags each year to people who need them. Food is distributed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9:00-100 am. St. Michael’s Food Pantry is stocked with items donated throughout the year, or purchased using cash donations. St. Michael’s School also holds a large food drive during Thanksgiving week.
Fowler Fund
St. Michael’s Fowler Community Service Fund, named for St. Michael’s first Rector, provides resources for St. Michael’s continuing commitment to service, action, and advocacy in the local and global communities. The Fund allows us to provide mini-grants to worthy organizations, primarily in the local Tucson community. Recent local grants have benefited St. Michael’s Guatemala Project ($1,000 response to health crisis in Guatemala); and $500 for CIVIC [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement] to set up a national hotline available to persons in detention, who sometimes have no other way to make contacts, at request of involved Parishioner. Previous awards included $500 each to Tucson-based Heartbeat for Africa and international Partners in Health, for work in Sierra Leone and Liberia in response to the Ebola crisis; and $1,000 to Iglesia Episcopal de Santa María, Glendale, to help with losses following a fire.
St. Michael's Guatemala Project
St. Michael’s Guatemala Project is a non-sectarian, non-proselytizing informal partnership with the Maya of the CPR-Sierra [Communities of Population in Resistance of the Sierra], who became refugees in their own country as they fled massacres during Guatemala’s 36-year internal conflict. It builds upon a relationship begun in 1993, during the war years. Teams travel each summer to isolated villages, bringing medical supplies, medical care and training.
For more information please visit the Guatemala Project website.
Native Ministry
The Native Ministry team seeks to cultivate and maintain respectful relationships with our Indigenous neighbors, the ancestral People of the Land – the Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui and Sobaipuri. We practice the discipleship of decolonization with attention to recognition and reconciliation. Native Ministry hosts Indigenous speakers, sponsors a Christmas celebration for Pascua Yaqui children and their families, and proudly celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Mass and in Tucson. Acknowledging the people of the land, the Sobaipuri O’odham, Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui, and other indigenous people as original stewards of this land, we give thanks for our ancestors, our elders, and for all indigenous peoples who worship with us.
Primavera Shelter Meal
This team provides a meal for 120 homeless men on the second Sunday of each month. A dedicated, well-organized team divides preparation and serving responsibilities. New cooks and occasional backup are always needed!
Social Action Committee
SAC practices the gospel through service and advocacy. Meetings are open to all, third Sunday of the month. The committee periodically holds house mass and potluck meetings.
Tucson Interfaith HIV & Aids Network
Once each year, usually in March, St. Michael’s sponsors and hosts the monthly Poz Café meal for people living with HIV/AIDS. Poz Café is now the largest regular gathering place for people living with HIV in Southern Arizona. Lunch is followed by time to hang out, chat, play bingo, enjoy a raffle of fun and useful gifts, and receive a Care Package of toiletries, paper goods and other useful items. With support from two other sponsoring faith communities, the 2016 crew served 143 people at this event. TIHAN is 100% privately funded.
Members of St. Michael's prepare hundreds of hard-boiled eggs for delivery to the people of Casa Maria, a Catholic Worker community in South Tucson that serves hundreds of hungry and homeless people on a daily basis.
International Holiday Bazaar
Bi-annually in December we offer free space for over 25 socially-committed, non-violent nonprofit groups to sell their wares. Parish artists also participate. It’s holiday shopping with a conscience, and features food, music & fun.
Epiphany Gifts for Primavera
During Epiphany we collect warm clothing, blankets, towels, new socks and underwear, and toiletries for folk at Primavera Shelter. Contact the Social Action Committee or the church office.
Food Pantry
St. Michael’s gives many hundreds of food bags each year to people who need them. Food is distributed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9:00-100 am. St. Michael’s Food Pantry is stocked with items donated throughout the year, or purchased using cash donations. St. Michael’s School also holds a large food drive during Thanksgiving week.
Fowler Fund
St. Michael’s Fowler Community Service Fund, named for St. Michael’s first Rector, provides resources for St. Michael’s continuing commitment to service, action, and advocacy in the local and global communities. The Fund allows us to provide mini-grants to worthy organizations, primarily in the local Tucson community. Recent local grants have benefited St. Michael’s Guatemala Project ($1,000 response to health crisis in Guatemala); and $500 for CIVIC [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement] to set up a national hotline available to persons in detention, who sometimes have no other way to make contacts, at request of involved Parishioner. Previous awards included $500 each to Tucson-based Heartbeat for Africa and international Partners in Health, for work in Sierra Leone and Liberia in response to the Ebola crisis; and $1,000 to Iglesia Episcopal de Santa María, Glendale, to help with losses following a fire.
St. Michael's Guatemala Project
St. Michael’s Guatemala Project is a non-sectarian, non-proselytizing informal partnership with the Maya of the CPR-Sierra [Communities of Population in Resistance of the Sierra], who became refugees in their own country as they fled massacres during Guatemala’s 36-year internal conflict. It builds upon a relationship begun in 1993, during the war years. Teams travel each summer to isolated villages, bringing medical supplies, medical care and training.
For more information please visit the Guatemala Project website.
Native Ministry
The Native Ministry team seeks to cultivate and maintain respectful relationships with our Indigenous neighbors, the ancestral People of the Land – the Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui and Sobaipuri. We practice the discipleship of decolonization with attention to recognition and reconciliation. Native Ministry hosts Indigenous speakers, sponsors a Christmas celebration for Pascua Yaqui children and their families, and proudly celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Mass and in Tucson. Acknowledging the people of the land, the Sobaipuri O’odham, Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui, and other indigenous people as original stewards of this land, we give thanks for our ancestors, our elders, and for all indigenous peoples who worship with us.
Primavera Shelter Meal
This team provides a meal for 120 homeless men on the second Sunday of each month. A dedicated, well-organized team divides preparation and serving responsibilities. New cooks and occasional backup are always needed!
Social Action Committee
SAC practices the gospel through service and advocacy. Meetings are open to all, third Sunday of the month. The committee periodically holds house mass and potluck meetings.
Tucson Interfaith HIV & Aids Network
Once each year, usually in March, St. Michael’s sponsors and hosts the monthly Poz Café meal for people living with HIV/AIDS. Poz Café is now the largest regular gathering place for people living with HIV in Southern Arizona. Lunch is followed by time to hang out, chat, play bingo, enjoy a raffle of fun and useful gifts, and receive a Care Package of toiletries, paper goods and other useful items. With support from two other sponsoring faith communities, the 2016 crew served 143 people at this event. TIHAN is 100% privately funded.
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St. Michael & All Angels Church
A parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona 602 N. Wilmot Rd. Tucson, AZ 85711 520-886-7292 church@stmichael.net Sunday Schedule 7:15 AM – Morning Prayer 7:45 AM – Low Mass 9:00 AM – Family Mass 10:30 AM – Solemn Mass 5:00 PM – Low Mass |
All are welcome!
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